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If you bought rights for the game, you should have gotten source code along with those rights. Otherwise, the rights you bought probably do not include rights to the original game code -- most rights licensing deals are licenses to use storyline or characters or something similar in a new game, not complete control over an existing game.

The files you're describing sound like output (compiled) program files.

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I am kinda interested in this subject. Not that I want to decode (or dissassemble?) copyrighted material but more like viruses etc..how is done in theory? I would guess that you would convert the to ASM and maybe from there to higher level language like C. That just sounds awfully slow.

@slurppa, there are tons of websites that detail how to reverse engineer software. Since it is the policy of BC to not allow discussions about hacking/cracking/reversing except under very narrow circumstances, this is not much help available here.